Frasi di Giorgio V del Regno Unito

Giorgio V, nome completo George Frederick Ernest Albert , è stato re di Gran Bretagna, d'Irlanda e dei Dominion britannici d'oltremare, nonché Imperatore d'India. Regnò dal 6 maggio 1910, morte del padre, fino al 20 gennaio 1936, giorno della sua morte. Fu inoltre un noto appassionato di filatelia e contribuì proficuamente alla "Collezione filatelica reale". Wikipedia  

✵ 3. Giugno 1865 – 20. Gennaio 1936
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Giorgio V del Regno Unito: Frasi in inglese

“You dress like a cad. You act like a cad. You are a cad.”

Allegedly said to his son, Prince Edward. Quoted by Christopher Warwick in Abdication (Sidgwick and Jackson, 1986)
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“It's the shortest one I know.”

Allegedly said to Sir Thomas Beecham on the opera La Bohème, on why it was his favourite.
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“I may be uninspiring, but I'll be damned if I'm alien.”

Allegedly said in response to H. G. Wells's criticism of his "alien [i.e. German-descended] and uninspiring court"
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“My father was frightened of his mother. I was frightened of my father and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me.”

Attributed in Randolph Churchill's Lord Derby (1959), but said by Kenneth Rose https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Rose in King George V (1983) to be almost certainly apocryphal.
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“But, remember, I wish to have the best collection, not just one of the best collections in England.”

Allegedly said to J.A. Tilleard, Honorary Secretary, Philatelic Society, on appointing him as Philatelist to the King.
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“The King feels so strongly that, no matter the crime committed by anyone on whom the VC has been conferred, the decoration should not be forfeited. Even were a VC to be sentenced to be hanged for murder, he should be allowed to wear his VC on the scaffold.”

Lord Stamfordham, private secretary to George V, on 26 July 1920. The original Royal Warrant involved an expulsion clause that allowed for a recipient's name to be erased from the official register in certain wholly discreditable circumstances and his pension cancelled. Eight were forfeited between 1861 and 1908. George V strongly opposed the concept of revoking a Victoria Cross, and directed Lord Stamfordham to express this view forcefully in a letter.
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“I look upon him as the greatest criminal known for having plunged the world into war.”

Alleged statement about his cousin Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany (1918)
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“After I am dead, the boy will ruin himself in twelve months.”

Statement to Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, referring to his son, Edward, Prince of Wales
Quoted in Keith Middlemas and John Barnes, Baldwin (1969) ch.34

“Goddamn you!”

Alleged last words, after his nurse administered a sedative.
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“I said to your predecessor: 'You know what they're all saying, no more coals to Newcastle, no more Hoares to Paris.' The fellow didn't even laugh.”

Said to Anthony Eden on 23 December 1935 following the furore that erupted over the Hoare-Laval Pact.
Quoted in Earl of Avon, Facing the Dictators (1962) pt.2 ch.1

“They make me look like a stuffed monkey.”

Allegedly said about two postage stamps issued in 1911.
Attributed

“What did you do about peeing?”

Allegedly said to Charles Lindbergh after he flew the Atlantic solo in an aeroplane.
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“How's the Empire?”

On the morning of his death; quoted in Kenneth Rose, King George V (1983), ch.10

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